SC to pronounce its judgement on Vodafone tax dispute today
Posted Date : 20-Jan-2012 , 08:10:39 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Supreme Court will on Friday pronounce its judgement on Vodafone International Holdings' appeal challenging the income tax demand of Rs 11,000 crore on the overseas deal between Vodafone and Hutchison.
Vodafone had moved the apex court challenging the Bombay High Court judgement of September ...
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ICWAI gets its Name Changed to ICAI and its Members to use ACMA and FCMA
Posted Date : 19-Jan-2012 , 09:07:06 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) will be henceforth be known as The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI). The change is a sequel to the passing of of ICWAI Amendment Act 2011, to enable their members to use the designation ACMA and FCMA denoting Associate and Fel...
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Newly Elected President & Vice President of ICSI
Posted Date : 19-Jan-2012 , 12:17:23 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has got its new President and Vice President for the year 2012. In an election held in New Delhi today Mr. Nesar Ahmad has been elected as PRESIDENT while Mr. S. N. Ananthasubramanian has been elected as the VICE PRESIDENT.
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CA Final November 2011, CPT December 2011 Examination- List of Toppers, Pass percentage, Analysis year-wise / gender-wise / Region-wise
Posted Date : 19-Jan-2012 , 10:51:59 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) announced the following results
Chartered Accountants Final Examination held in November, 2011.
TCommin Profiency Test (Paper Pencil Mode) held on December 18, 2011.
Since December 1949, the Chartered Accountan...
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Education institutions should follow uniform accounting system: ICAI
Posted Date : 19-Jan-2012 , 08:27:33 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Accounting regulator ICAI has recommended to the Human Resource Development Ministry that all education institutions should follow a uniform system for maintaining their account books, in order to ensure a "true and correct picture" of the state of their affairs. The Institute of Chartered Acco...
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Government may make declaring of overseas assets details mandatory by taxpayers
Posted Date : 19-Jan-2012 , 08:26:34 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government may make it mandatory for all taxpayers to provide details of their overseas assets, including bank accounts, while filing their annual tax returns, as the drive against tax evasion gains momentum. The proposed Direct Tax Code, or DTC, has a provision that seeks to cast an obligat...
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RBI cracks down on violations by co-operative banks
Posted Date : 19-Jan-2012 , 08:23:10 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Every four-and-a-half days during this fiscal, at least one cooperative bank has been either penalized or stripped of its licence to operate, as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cracks down on rule violations by these banks.
Overall, 73 such banks have either been penalized or asked to shu...
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I-T department slaps Rs 1,067-cr tax notice on Bharti Airtel
Posted Date : 19-Jan-2012 , 08:16:48 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The income-tax department has slapped a 1,067-crore demand notice on Bharti Airtel, the country's largest telco by revenues and customers, for its alleged non-payment of Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) dues in the last four financial years in relation to its overseas operations. Bharti Airtel said ...
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Govt to address slippages in economic parameters in upcoming Budget: FM
Posted Date : 18-Jan-2012 , 09:55:12 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Finance Minister says, the Government will have to address the slippages in economic parameters in the upcoming Budget. Addressing 84th Annual General Meeting of FICCI in New Delhi, Pranab Mukherjee warned that the months ahead are difficult as growth rate may fall below 7.5 per cent. He said there ...
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Income Tax Department Directed to Launch Special Drive for Verifying High Value Transactions
Posted Date : 18-Jan-2012 , 09:26:45 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has directed the Income Tax department to launch a special drive, from 20th January to 20th March 2012, for verifying high value transactions (investments / deposits / expenditure) from persons who are not assessed to income tax or who have not furnished their PAN w...
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ICAI to probe fund inflows into PwC India
Posted Date : 18-Jan-2012 , 09:23:49 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Auditing regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) on Tuesday said it will look into reports of money inflows into several Pricewaterhouse-Coopers (PwC) India entities, including the group's audit firms Price Waterhouse (PW) and Lovelock & Lewes (LL). ICAI presi...
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ICWAI
Posted Date : 18-Jan-2012 , 09:21:23 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
THE COST AND WORKS ACCOUNTANTS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011
(No. 10 of 2012)
[12th January, 2012.]
An Act further to amend the Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
Short ti...
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Laxman Das appointed CBDT Member (Revenue)
Posted Date : 18-Jan-2012 , 09:13:47 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Senior IRS officer Laxman Das has been appointed as the new Member (Revenue) in the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
Mr Das is a 1974-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer and has held senior positions like that of Chief Commissioner (Income-Tax) in the past.
The portfolio was till now...
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Essar Oil loses deferred tax payment incentive, faces Rs 6,300 crore burden
Posted Date : 18-Jan-2012 , 09:12:25 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Essar Oil would have to quickly deposit sales tax of Rs 6,300 crore to the Gujarat government, as the Supreme Court has rejected the company's contention that it was entitled to make deferred payment of tax on sales from its Vadinar refinery in the state. The Gujarat government had argued that E...
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SBI says it's difficult to lend more to NPA Kingfisher Airlines
Posted Date : 17-Jan-2012 , 09:02:20 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
State Bank of India on Tuesday said it will be difficult for lenders to provide more funds to debt- ridden Kingfisher Airlines unless the airline pays Rs 100 crore to restore a bank guarantee invoked after the carrier failed to repay its loans or makes good the default. "It (Kingfisher Airlines)...
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Gold, silver to become expensive, govt changes duty structure
Posted Date : 17-Jan-2012 , 07:34:17 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Gold and silver are set to become more expensive as the government has changed the duty structure on precious metals from specific to value-linked. The change will enable the exchequer to rake in an additional 600 crore rupees during the remaining months of this fiscal. As per the changes, customs a...
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Procedure for Providing Inspection or Certified Copies of Evaluated Answer Books
Posted Date : 17-Jan-2012 , 10:19:11 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
ANNOUNCEMENT
January 12, 2012
Procedure for providing inspection/certified copies of evaluated answer-books to the concerned examinees
1. The procedure laid down hereinafter specifically applies to providing inspection/certified copies of answer books relating to Novem...
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Google, Facebook benefit from illegal content: Delhi High Court
Posted Date : 17-Jan-2012 , 08:55:48 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The High Court on Monday said that websites such as Google and Facebook are liable for the content, posted on their platform by users, as they benefit from the content. Google India's counsel Neeraj Kishan Kaul argued before the Court that the complainant Vinay Rai has failed find out the bloggers...
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Profits from offshore supply of IT equipment not taxable: court
Posted Date : 17-Jan-2012 , 08:44:22 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
A recent verdict by the Delhi high court might set a precedent on the taxation of equipment that comprise hardware and software. In a case between Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson and the department of income tax, the court held that profits from offshore supply of equipment comprising har...
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L&T launches long-term infrastructure bonds
Posted Date : 17-Jan-2012 , 08:42:28 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Infrastructure bonds are gaining popularity because of the recently introduced tax benefit under 80CCF. Under this Section of the Income Tax Act, an investor can seek tax relief on the investment amount up to 20,000 in long-term infrastructure bonds. After a spate of infrastructure bond issu...
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Vodafone India sets ball rolling for IPO, appoints NM Rothschild
Posted Date : 17-Jan-2012 , 08:39:39 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
UK-based telecom major Vodafone has moved a step further to list its India operations by roping in investment bank NM Rothschild to assist the listing plans. According to sources, Vodafone India has roped in investment bank NM Rothschild to assist the company in its listing plans. When contacted...
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Inflation will come down further: Pranab
Posted Date : 16-Jan-2012 , 08:08:42 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Government has expressed confidence that moderation in inflation will continue in the coming months. Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee today said that the headline inflation would be between six and seven per cent by the end of March. Reacting to the decline in monthly inflation to 7.47...
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CAs lobby against RBI plan to reduce audits
Posted Date : 16-Jan-2012 , 08:39:00 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Chartered accountants (CAs) are lobbying hard to protect a source of income that’s at risk of drying up as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may allow state-run banks to stop branch audits, a move that could save costs.
Banks are looking for savings as a slowing economy acts as ...
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Govt asks I-T officials to file IPRs by month-end
Posted Date : 16-Jan-2012 , 08:26:39 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
After IAS and IPS officers, the government has now turned its heat on Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) officers asking them to mandatorily furnish their immovable property returns by this month-end failing which they would be denied promotions. Citing a Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT)...
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22 crore Aakash tablets required in future: Government
Posted Date : 15-Jan-2012 , 09:17:58 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government has said it will require an additional 22 crore units of the world's cheapest tablet Aakash to move a step further in its endeavour to merge education with information technology. "Initially, we bought one lakh Aakash tablets but we need 22 crore more tablets in the coming years a...
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Fin Min to include financing of climate change in the Economic Survey
Posted Date : 15-Jan-2012 , 07:31:19 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu says, the Finance Ministry will include a special chapter on financing of climate change in the Economic Survey. He said this while addressing a UNDP event in New Delhi.As per the 2010-2011 Economic Survey, India's total carbon- dioxide emissions were about 4 per ...
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Chartered Accountants must gear up to face challenges: ICAI President
Posted Date : 14-Jan-2012 , 09:41:10 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) President G. Ramaswamy on Friday urged the Chartered Accountants to gear up to face the number of challenges facing the profession.
Chartered Accountants are facing stiff competition in the form of numerous legislations such as Companies Bill, Go...
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Fin Min looking for good dividends from PSUs
Posted Date : 14-Jan-2012 , 09:38:06 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Finance Ministry today said, it expects the public sector units to pay good amount of dividend in the current fiscal.Economic Affairs Secretary R Gopalan told reporters in New Delhi, the Ministry is conscious of the fact that they also need resources for their own financing programmes. They also...
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BANK OF BARODA
Posted Date : 14-Jan-2012 , 08:20:22 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Bank of Baroda is positioning itself to offer a world-class banking experience to its customers around the globe through its innovations in products, services and advanced technology. Towards this end, the Bank is transforming itself into a ‘Technology-enabled Customer-c...
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RBI sets pay guidelines for executives in private banks
Posted Date : 14-Jan-2012 , 07:41:01 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank of India has laid down guidelines for compensation of executives at private and foreign banks aimed at preventing greed from destabilising the institution, with provisions to clawback pay if transactions fail years after origination. The guidelines based on the recommendation...
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